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  "id": "frankfurt-airport-drone-disruption-2020-03-02",
  "title": "Frankfurt operations suspended twice after reported drones on 2 March 2020",
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  "summary": "Reported drone sightings caused two interruptions to take-off and landing clearances at Frankfurt Airport on 2 March 2020. The reported morning and afternoon interruptions are kept together as one same-day dossier.",
  "impact": "Xinhua gives local suspension windows of 11:23–13:00 and 15:10–16:04, citing federal police. A later same-day account gives 57 diverted and 72 cancelled flights. Earlier figures in the local report differ; they are not added to the later totals.",
  "evidence": "Frankfurter Rundschau records a direct airport-operator response and successive police updates. Xinhua separately reports the police statement, including operator-derived totals. Police and Fraport are distinct operational origins, with shared underlying official information rather than independent technical drone identification.",
  "unknown": "The local page currently displays a July 2020 publication/version timestamp, while its body explicitly dates the event updates 2 March; the event date comes from those updates and the Xinhua dateline. The local report’s earlier description of an approximately hour-long interruption differs from the later explicit windows. Do not turn this into one continuous all-day closure or combine rolling counts. No recovered device, model, operator, collision or physical damage established.",
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    "url": "https://www.fr.de/frankfurt/flughafen-frankfurt-wegen-drohne-ohne-flugbetrieb-zr-13568620.html",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/frankfurt-airport-drone-disruption-2020-03-02/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Frankfurt operations suspended twice after reported drones on 2 March 2020”, dossier frankfurt-airport-drone-disruption-2020-03-02, revision 1, updated 2026-10-16. https://droneincidents.com/incident/frankfurt-airport-drone-disruption-2020-03-02/",
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